Dick Allen

QUOTE(3E8 @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 11:41 PM) Pods line last three months: .260/.305/.335. Just what you want from the player guaranteed the most at-bats. Its amazing to me one of the worst hitters on the team is guaranteed to come to bat at least as much, if not more than any other player on the team. If there is some reason Pods must play, he should bat 8th or 9th.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 11:39 PM) Pods hasn't had a called 3rd strike tonight. Thats alright, he pulled up at third and most likely cost the team a run. What a useless player he is. He shouldn't be ahead of Jerry Owens even.

QUOTE(Maverick0984 @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 11:35 PM) Juan WILL swing for the fences Most teams swing for the fences in extra innings. Some analyst had a theory that a team with little team power would be a better extra inning team, because they wouldn't swing for the fences. If you can reach them, its a natural reaction.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 11:33 PM) How'd Buerhle look? Buerhle wasn't bad from the little I saw. He had a couple of real quick innings, which to me is his key. When he starts throwing a ton of pitches, he usually gets hit hard.

QUOTE(SoxHawk1980 @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 11:26 PM) ...or a loss. It wouldn't take too long a losing streak to basically end the White Sox season. There haven't been many games lately where they shouldn't have won., or at least if they really wanted it, could have won. It really is a shame how many games this team has pissed away this season. Its been a collective failure. They have a good record, but the last 70 games or so, have been a below average team. No one wins races limping to the finish.

This is the type a game where a win may carry over for a while.

Yet another game where the Sox have had their chances to make it not so close.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 11:19 PM) Was Jerry Owens any good at TE during his UCLA days? Wasn't he a WR?

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 11:16 PM) Damaso Marte in 2005 says hi. Sam Smith calls Cotts Damaso Cotts.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 11:15 PM) I don't know about you guys, but one of the things that pisses me off the most about Ozzie is how he thinks lefties can automatically get lefties out, even though both are lefties are probably more effect vs. righties. To me, Ozzie has always been too caught up in the L vs. L and R vs. R match-up. Its a pretty known fact though that guys usually hit better facing a pitcher from their opposite side. My problem with Ozzie is when he takes pitchers who are on a roll out because of that particular match-up. There's really no telling if a guy is going to be bringing his good stuff with him from the bullpen. If someone is pitching well, l would usually leave him in.

QUOTE(whitesox1976 @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 11:14 PM) Is Ozzie going to leave Thornton in or put Bobby in, in the bottom of the 9th? It definitely appears like Jenks could use a couple of days off.

Try priceline in January. You will be able to get the Palmer House for under $70 and if you are willing to stay at the Hyatt, it will be under $50 a night.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 11:05 PM) I just cant believe it. Can anyone give me a reason, seriously, jokes aside, why Hermanson is in the game in the 8th inning of a 3-3 tie? Because the White Sox won the WS last year, and were managed by Ozzie. Whatever he thinks happpens to be the right decision.

This really is pathetic. If Hermanson is good enough to pitch in this situation, he shouldn't have spent most of his summer in Charlotte.

Maybe Ozzie got a hold of Bill and Ted's time machine.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 10:58 PM) Ugh...great play. Why do our runners seem so damn slow? Iguchi was watching that ball, and he didn't turn it on until the last 20 feet. I still go back to the article I read 2 years ago which a scout stated they couldn't get good times on the White Sox to first base because most didn't bust their ass down the line. I thought Ozzie stated you play the right way or not at all.

Dye in the 3 spot hasn't quite worked out as hoped.

SCOTT PODSEDNIK IS A HORRIBLE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER[/size]

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 10:51 PM) Cotts and Hermanson warming up? What happened to Thornton and MacDougal? There is no difference between a white flag trade, and inserting those two.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 10:45 PM) Cherry picking 101 is now in session what if Garland had been just average in the second half Whatever. I'll just get all my White Sox wisdom from you. Sorry I have an opinion.

I really think it would be an upset if this team advanced very far in the playoffs if they even make it. They really haven't had the magic that seems to infultrate every championship team, and I don't think that even if they got some sort of momentum for the last 2 weeks, that would carry them to another title.

Hopefully asking the offense to score again isn't asking too much, kind of like asking Pods to hustle into 3rd on a SB attempt.

QUOTE(SoxFanForever @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 10:42 PM) Oh yeah, with that meatball that barely floated into shallow left center. What a son of a b****. Regardless, Buerhle has been brutal the second half. Just average, and the Sox might be leading the Central.

Are the Sox playing the infield in? They get burned so much by that. I prefer half way.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 10:29 PM) Mark cruising... When Buerhle doesn't throw 25 pitches in an inning, or more than 3 or 4 to one hitter, he is very good. When they pile up, he really gets burned.